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The Internal Structure of Causal Subordinators and the Attachment Site of Causal Clauses in the History of Italian

Languages
This paper investigates the syntax and diachrony of Italian causal clauses introduced by perché, siccome, and poiché. Although often treated as near-synonyms in Contemporary Italian, these subordinators differ systematically in their syntactic ...
Jacopo Garzonio, Emanuela Sanfelici
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Adverbial clauses of time in spoken Lithuanian

Lietuvių Kalba
The paper examines adverbial clauses of time in spoken Lithuanian. The data have been collected from The Corpus of Contemporary Lithuanian Language, namely its sub-corpus of spoken language. The aim of the study is to describe the structure of adverbial
Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Janina Bacevičiūtė-Kostiugovė   +1 more
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Localizing conditional clauses in the left periphery: evidence from multiple complementizer constructions in romance

Linguistica, 2016
This article analyzes the distribution of conditional clauses in multiple complementizer constructions, showing that preposed adverbial clauses could occupy in early Italo-Romance varieties different specifier positions within the left periphery of ...
Nicola Munaro
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Elicitation of adverbial clauses

, 2019
This is a recording of an elicitation of adverbial clauses in Mankiyali based on English sentences used as prompts. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner)
Paramore, Jonathan Charles
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French and German: Differences and Similarities in the Use of Indicative and Subjunctive in Adverbial Clauses

, 2020
This paper provides an outline of contrastive approach applied to the interpretation of the indicative and subjunctive mood in French and German subordinate adverbial clauses.
Grgicevic Bakaric, Petra, Krnić, Katarina   +1 more
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The movement analysis of temporal adverbial clauses

, 2009
In the literature it has been proposed that temporal adverbial clauses can be derived by wh-movement of an operator (e.g. when) to the left periphery (Geis 1970, 1975; Enç 1987: 655; Larson 1987, 1990; Dubinsky & Williams 1995; Declerck 1997; Demirdache &
Haegeman, Liliane, LILIANE HAEGEMAN
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A Grammatical Sketch of Northern Tai Long Shan

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
Current grammar descriptions of Shan varieties do not include the northern variety within the current Shan State. This article addresses this gap by providing a descriptive sketch of a northern variety of Shan, namely, northern Tai Long Shan.
Soh, Jyr Minn
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The Syntax of Causal Clauses in Taiwan Southern Min

Studies in Chinese Linguistics
Causal clauses in Taiwan Southern Min (TSM) are an issue that has long been ignored. Based on data drawn from corpora and recordings, by means of a diagnostic based on locality effect (Pan and Paul 2018; Pan and Zhu 2023), we argue that in’ui ‘because ...
Wei Ting-Chi
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Ambiguity in Translation of Reduced Relative Clauses and Adverbial Clauses

Current Perspectives in Social Sciences
In English, relative pronouns and adverbial time or causal conjunctions might be omitted in the same way, thereby resulting in reductions. On the other hand, Turkish does not have reduction forms in RCs and ACs, which may lead to ambiguity in translation
Zeynep Başer, Mehpare Köseer Bütün
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An experimental investigation into scope rigidity in written Mandarin. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Wu H.
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